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Russian Ministry of Defense: Over a million Ukrainians killed or wounded since the start of hostilities

Nearly 600 thousand of them were killed or wounded in 2024, which exceeds the total losses in the first two years of the war

Feb 24, 2025 05:09 87

Russian Ministry of Defense: Over a million Ukrainians killed or wounded since the start of hostilities  - 1

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) as of February 24, 2022 amounted to about 1.08 million killed and wounded, according to TASS data.

According to daily and weekly reports of the Russian military department, Kiev has lost about 80 thousand soldiers since the beginning of the year. Also, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2022 amounted to 118.5 thousand people, in 2023 - 405.4 thousand servicemen.

In 2024, according to information published by the Russian military department in reports, materials from the final collegium and a briefing by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Ukrainian troops lost over 595 thousand people killed and wounded, which exceeds the total losses of the first two years of the special operation.